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BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING March 28, 1945 A meeting of the Board of Appeals was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on Friday evening, March 2319 1945, at 8;00 P. M. Chairman Glynn, Messrs. Bowker, Locke and Associate Members Lynah and Redman were present. The Clerk was also present. The meeting was held to consider further the application of Rufus Cromwell & Company for permission to operate, on the premises located at 177 Bedford Street, Lexington, a plant for the cold drawing and annealing of small metal tubing. The Chairman read the conditions upon which a permit was originally granted to the Misticke Company, owners of the property, who applied for a permit to conduct light manufacturing in 1937. The Chairman made a telephone call to Mr. S. R. VVrightington Town Counsel for advice as to the restrictions which should be incorporated in the permit if granted. Mr. Wrightington, how- ever, was indisposed. Upon motion of Mr. Locke, seconded by Mr. Bowker, it was unanimously voted to grant the petition of the Rufus Crowell & Company, subject to Mr. Wrightingtonts approval of the proposed restrictions. BOARD OF APPEALS PERMIT The Board of Appeals, acting under the Lexington Zoning By-law and General liats, Chapter 40, Sections 25 to 30 as, amended, having received a written petition addressed to it by Rufus Crowell & Company a copy of which is hereto annexed held a public hearing thereon of which a notice was mailed to the petitioner and to the owners of all property deemed by the Board to be affected thereby as they appear on the most recent local tax list and also advertised in the Lexington Minute -Man, a newspaper published in Lexington, which hearing was held in the Selectmen's Room, in the Torn Office Building on the sixteenth day of March, 1945, Three regular and two Associate members of the Board of Appeals were present at the hearing. A certificate of notice is hereto annexed. At this hearing evidence was offered on behalf of the petitioner tending to show; That they wished to operate on the premises located at 177 Bedford Street, Lexington, a plant for the cold drawing and annealing of small metal tubing; that the processes consisted of annealing in small furnaces cold drawing the tubing from stock one and'one-quarter inches in diameter to smaller sizes over drawing benches about thibrty feet in length, and when the desired sizes had been obtained, to cut the tubing into shorter • lengths by abrasive or other weans; that the means of .doing this was largely by hand work and practically noiseless machinery;